Open source funding
A checked list of open source funding for AI and tech builders, with the eligibility gates spelled out: what it costs you, who can apply, and from where.
18 programmes
Free compute on fal for researchers and developers working on open source AI projects. No published amount, no application form: you email grants@fal.ai with the project.
Non-dilutive grants for open source maintainers, researchers and public-goods builders working on open AGI, with rolling applications and no fixed deadline.
A stipend covering living expenses for 6 to 12 months so an open source maintainer can work full time on their project; no equity, no company required, work from anywhere.
Rolling milestone-based grants for public goods on Solana; no grant size is published, and applications are reviewed continuously.
Rolling milestone-based convertible grants for public goods that have a commercial component; no amount or conversion terms are published.
Pays open source maintainers, community managers and technical writers directly as freelance contractors for 3 to 12 months at 6 to 32 hours a week; hourly rate negotiated, not published.
EUR 5,000 to 50,000 from a EUR 450,000 call for work on a self-hostable federated hosting stack, running to November 2027.
EUR 5,000 to 50,000 for work on privacy-preserving digital payment technology in and around GNU Taler, on recurring calls running through August 2027.
A one-year $24,000 stipend supplement for enrolled PhD students doing open-access academic research on designated Ethereum-relevant topics.
Founder-friendly investment for companies building open AI products for global scale, with rolling applications and no fixed deadline.
$5,000 to $50,000 for open source AI projects, paid as cash or as compute, with no stated deadline.
Grants awarded against ESP Wishlist items, which define high-level goals and stay open rather than running to a deadline. No Wishlist items were live at the time of capture.
Funds development and maintenance of foundational open source infrastructure where the described work costs more than EUR 50,000, applied for continuously via an application platform.
Numbered, dated grant rounds you apply into; matching funds are pooled from partners and allocated per-domain by mechanisms chosen by that domain's allocator.
Active Ethereum L1 core protocol contributors receive a continuously streamed share of donated funds, weighted by how long they have been contributing; there is no application, an existing member nominates you by pull request.
Up to three two-year salaried positions at Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH paying EUR 64,000 to 82,000 a year full time, for maintainers located in and authorised to work in Germany.
Small grants for grassroots Ethereum initiatives in the run-up to Devcon 8: meetups, bootcamps, hackathons, roundtables and academic collaborations.
Grants for student groups, professors and academic institutions building Ethereum engagement ahead of Devcon 8. No funding amount is published for this RFP item.